Accident Prone - Becoming Human

Man or Machine?

Time went on and life in Detroit had settled into a relatively calm lull as humans and deviants seemingly slowly learned to peacefully co-exist with one another in the aftermath of the peaceful Revolution. It had already been almost two full years since the success of the Revolution as led by Markus; the leader of the deviants and founder of 'New Jericho'. During that time Connor had continued worked with his partner and best friend Lieutenant Hank Anderson at the Central Detroit Police Precinct to set about creating new laws and guidelines to protect the deviants from discrimination without compromising the rights of human in the process.

Hundreds of deviants had fled the city during the Revolution out of fear for their own lives, while others boldly stood their ground beside Markus and Connor as they worked together to bring about a peaceful Revolution to free the deviants who had been taken to recycling plants to be deactivated. As a result the two deviants were hailed as heroes, leaders and earned the highest degree of respect from their peers.

In the corresponding comparatively tranquil years that followed the Revolution several deviants returned to the city in an attempt to rebuild their lives while others remained in hiding over the border in Canada. The air was full of mixed emotions as the returning deviants had to confront their pasts regarding humans and their fellow deviants alike.

As the historical night was remembered fondly by some and disdained by others the city was preparing to celebrate its first (official) anniversary of the Revolution, a few odd complaints about deviants suddenly showing signs of machine-like complicity - almost as if they had been reset or reprogrammed, had been initially dismissed as anti-android intolerance. Soon the reports became more frequent and required immediate attention. The reports were alarming enough to put a damper on the festivities for the time being and put the city officials on high alert.

Disturbingly enough the deviants who seemingly returned to their default machine consciousness exhibited signs of violence against other all deviants or humans who approached. The cause was unknown and the investigation was actively ongoing.

"Two more deviants exhibiting bizarre behavior have been reported downtown." Connor noted as an update to the case file caused his L.E.D. to flash from blue to yellow as he sat behind his terminal to continue the investigation. The bright light in his temple then cycled back to blue as he logged the new data into his memorybank and found no new useful information to use as a lead. "Still no connections between the affected deviants has been identified, and no singular possible cause for the resets has been detected."

Tired and getting frustrated with the lack of progress Hank sighed despondently as he studied the numerous reported cases on his own terminal screen across from Connor with a studious stare. "Can we rule out a software virus?"

"Unknown."

"And I suppose the same can be said about a system malfunction, huh?"

"Correct."

"Shit." Picking up his dark blue mug Hank finished off his coffee and leaned back in his chair. Scanning over the bullpen Hank noticed that everyone seemed to be working on the unusual case right alongside himself and Connor. "This is getting us nowhere." As his eyes swept over the bullpen Hank caught sight of someone who seemed oddly familiar and the sight stole his words mid sentence. "I wonder if- Huh..."

A young woman approached the two adjoined desks from behind Connor and immediately locked her eyes on the deviant detective. She froze in place as if she was too shy to say anything but was determined to speak to him regardless of her own fears. Sporting short blonde hair, pale blue eyes and a cautious demeanor, it was this woman in question that was somehow familiar to Hank. Curiously he watched her slowly walk up behind Connor and pause once more before she finally worked up the nerve to speak.